My Bond is “sort of” controlling my Comfortex TDBU (Top Down Bottom Up) window shades, but it could certainly be better, so hopefully someone can help.
Remote control: The remote is a 16 channel 433.92MHZ remote, model BF-415. There is no indication anywhere on the remote of an FCC ID. The remote requires the user to press and hold the button for about a second in order for the proper action to trigger.
Pairing with Bond: When pairing Bond proposes all sorts of frequencies near 433.92, but rarely proposes 433.92. HOWEVER, somehow (can’t remember how), I was able to pair the top rail with a profile in Bond, and that works fairly reliably. I’m fine setting up the top and bottom rails as separate devices, since they each have their own up/down actions. On the app, for the device I’ve defined as “Top Rail”, in settings/advanced, it says the template is RMS76.
So for my questions:
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Is this RMS76 template associated with the Bond emitting the equivalent of a long press? If so, is there some sort of way I can select this RMS76 template to pair the bottom rails as a separate device? How do I figure out what device that template is associated with?
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The profile for the RMS76 template does not offer a preset, but my remote allows me to define a preset location to partially open the blinds. Is there a way to get a Preset action into the RMS76 template?
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a. This one is more of a suggestion. Bond calls the buttons “open” and “close”. Of course with a TDBU, things are opposite. Normal blind: Down = close. TDBU: top rail down = open. Thus, ideally, Bond should rename the actions “UP” and “DOWN”.
b. Short of that, is there a way I can reverse the labels?
Thanks in advance for any help.
